xxii, 401 pages : 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and index

1. Conflicting Ideas About Hotel Life. Hotel Homes and Cosmopolitan Diversity. Barriers to Understanding Hotel Living. San Francisco's Hotels as Exemplars -- 2. Palace Hotels and Social Opulence. Personal Ease and Instant Social Position. Incubators for a Mobile High Society. Conversion Experiences for the New City -- 3. Midpriced Mansions for Middle Incomes. Convenience for Movable Lives. Mansions for Rent. Alternative Quarters. Room for Exceptions -- 4. Rooming Houses and the Margins of Respectability. Plain Rooms. Economic Limbo. Rooming House Districts: Diversity and Mixture. Downtown Alternatives to Rooming Houses. Scattered Homes versus Material Correctness -- 5. Outsiders and Cheap Lodging Houses. Essential Outcasts. No-Family Houses. Zones for Single Laborers: Skid Row and Chinatown. Fronts for Embarrassing Economic Realities -- 6. Building a Civilization Without Homes. Owners and Managers. Specialization for Single Use. Public Impressions and Residential Opposition

7. Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance. Hotel Critics and Reform Ranks. Concerns for the Family. Hazards for the Individual. Threats to Urban Citizenship. Hotel Homes as a Public Nuisance -- 8. From Scattered Opinion to Centralized Policy. Forging Frameworks for Housing Change. Early Arenas of Hotel Control. Doctrinaire Idealism and Deliberate Ignorance. Buildings as Targets and Surrogates -- 9. Prohibition Versus Pluralism. Losing Ground: Changing Contexts, 1930-1970. Official Prohibitions of Hotel Life, 1930-1970. Since 1970: Conflicts Surrounding Hotel Life. The Prospect of Pluralism in Housing. History Urban Experts and Pluralism -- Appendix: Hotel and Employment Statistics

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